You're entirely wrong, moron. I am the one with head damage. Stop being far dumber than me.
It's a bit of a nightmare. Thanks for asking though. Discomfort makes sleeping hard. Little sleeping makes mental/physical healing longer. With this many broken ribs, on both sides, plus the clavicle, I can only sleep on my back. Sleeping on my back is uncomfortable when you spend 16 hours a day on your back. I've made major strides in six weeks, but it still sucks.
Due to all of the facial fractures, it was hard to chew on one side of my mouth for a long time (still isn't back to normal).
All of my doctors contradict each other. My thoracic surgeon wants me to be cautious with everything. My clavicle surgeon wants me to be active and do PT. My primary doctor wants me to get good cardio since not breathing for so long collapsed the bottom of my lungs, which is called atelectasis, and which I didn't find out about until three weeks after I left the hospital even though it was diagnosed then. My neurosurgeon wants absolutely no physical or mental exertion.
The physical will eventually heal - just not to where I was before - but the mental stuff is more concerning.
I have no memory of the accident or the next two days . It happened on a Saturday afternoon. I allegedly watched the entire Super Bowl in my hospital room with my mom the next day, but I don't recall any of it nor the halftime show. A priest was sent to my room, but I politely asked him to leave, which he didn't take well. Again, I don't recall any of that. Many more stories like that over those two days.
I'm constantly tired which shouldn't be the case six weeks after a head injury. The neurosurgeon said that my eyes "aren't tracking" as they should, whatever that means, and wants another brain scan and spinal scan. He also wants four weeks of me doing nothing other than resting- no screen time, no work, probably even no jerking it. A few other mildly concerning issues.
I knew I was in pretty serious shit when, on the fourth or fifth day in trauma care, I noticed how little they cared about what I thought were some gnarly abrasions/cuts, caked blood all over my ear, etc. Normally, I would expect them to clean those things or dress them, but I think I had so many other things that were more serious, that they focused on them. You can see some of the deep bruises, exposed wounds, caked blood, line across my face/fracture, swollen face everywhere, etc. that they didn't seem to care about. There are some other pictures where the entire side of my back is a dark bruise color.
The oxygen tube they put under my nose and having four ports in my body made me realize that I was pretty beaten up.
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